In the fields of Leadership and Organizational research, there are many theories and concepts to consider. The following list is just a portion of the concepts that relate to leadership and organizational theory to some degree. I began compiling this list when I began my studies into leadership.
Acognitive approach
Acquired Need Theory (McClelland)
Action learning
Activation Theory (Malmo, 1959; Scott, 1966) Suggests that stimulation can serve as a powerful motivator only until an optimal level is achieved.
Adaptability
Adaption-Innovation Theory by Kiton (1976)
Adaptive Structuration Theory
Administrative Theory (Fayol)
Aesthetics
Agency Theory
Allportian Event-Structure Theory by F.H. Allportian (1954)
Analysis of power (French, 1956; French & Raven, 1959)
Aspiration Level Theory
Attainment of role theory
Attraction selection attrition framework (Snyder)
Attribution theory of conflict
Attribution Theory
Autopoeisis
Axiology
Bale’s interaction process analysis (Bale)
Boulding’s hierarchy of systems (Boulding, 1956)
Boundary spanning
Bounded rationality (March & Simon)
Bureaucratic collectivism
Bureaucratic conflict theories
Bureaucratic oligarchic theories
Calling
Chaos theory
Chaotic attractors
Charismatic Leadership Theory by Max Weber, 1947
Clans (Ouchi)
Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
Cognitive approach
Cognitive complexity
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive organization
Cognitive stage theory (Piaget)
Cognitive theory
Coherence
Cohesiveness including groupthink
Collective bargaining – unions, guilds,
Collectivism
Communication appreciation (McCrosky)
Communication patterns for task performance (Guetzkow & Simon, 1955; Shaw, 1954, 1958)
Communicator style (Norton)
Complex adaptive systems
Complexity theory
Conditional trust (Jones & George 1998);
Configuration
Conflict resolution (Thomas & Ruble)
Constructivism (Delia)
Consummation
Contemporary Conflict Theory (William Julius Wilson 1940- )
Contemporary relativism
Contingency Theory by Frederick Fiedler (1951)
Contingency theory of organizational types (Burns & Stalker)
Creative Tensions Theory by T.S. Kuhn (1963)
Credibility
Cultural determinism
Cultural Dimensions --Hofstede
Power Distance
Cybernetics – steady state, stable state, change state
Decision emergence theory (Fisher)
Decision processing model (March & Simon, Lewin, Vroom, Yetton; Jago)
Definition of influence, power and authority
Determinism
Developmental theories (Piaget, )
Diagnostic job redesign (Oldham & Hackman)
Dialectical theory of friendships
Dialogue (Bohm, 1996; Buber, 1970; )
Didacticism
Discourse (Michael Foucault, 1972)
Disposable leadership
Dissonance theory (Festinger, 1954, 1957)
Double loop learning (Argyris)
Dynamic social impact theory
Dynamic social impact theory (Latané & Herrou, 1996; Nowak, Szamrej, & Latané, 1990)
Dynamical systems theory
Early Trait Approach
Eclecticism
Economic theory
Ecosystems
E-leadership
Emergence
Enactment theory (Weick)
Enlightened Leadership
Environment- Meaning (Burns & Stalker; Lawrence & Lorsch)
Environmental determinism
Environmental uncertainty and Organizational Design in the service sector
Environmental uncertainty information processing and adaptive design strategies (Joyce)
Equity Theory by Adams
Equivocation theory
ERG Theory (Alderfer)
Ethnography
Ethological theory
Exchange theory (Thibaut & Kelly)
Executive tenure
Exemplary followers
Expectancy Theory by Victor Vroom
Expectancy violations theory (Burgoon)
Experience
External environment
Fear
Feedback - The return of information about the results or status of a process within the organization.
Feedback loops
Feedback systems – negative, positive
Feminist Organization Theory
Fisher’s theory of narrative (Fisher)
Flux and transformation
Follower leader relations model
Formalization - Meaning
Four-factor theory of leadership (Parker, 1989)
Functional theory
Future perfect thinking (Week)
Garbage Can Theory of Decision Making by James March, Cohen & Olsen
General systems theory (vonBernallaffy)
Gestalt approac to organizational consulting
Gibson’s perceptual development theory (Gibson, 1969, 1992)
G.L.O.B.E.
Goal attainment model
Goal efficacy, goal integrity (McGregor & Little 1998)
Goal Setting Theory by E.A. Locke (1960's)
Grapevine (Davis, 1953)
Great man theory
Group decision making
Group dynamics - Status, Role, Norm
Group field dynamics (Polley, 1988, 1989)
Group Performance
Group psychotherapy (Ettin, Fidler, & Cohen, 1995; Verdi & Wheelan, 1992; Wheelan & McKeage, 1993)
Group roles (McCann & Margerison)
Groups and identity
Groups as complex adaptive dynamic systems
Groups as systems for improving learning and member adjustment
Groups as systems for individuals to grow in self-understanding (National Training Laboratory)
Groups as systems for influencing members
Groups as systems for patterning interaction
Groups as systems for performing tasks
Groupthink
Hall’s theory on proxemics
Hierarchy theory (Simon)
High performance teams
Hirokawa’s model of the group decision making process (Hirokawa)
Holographic design
Homeostasis
Human capital theory (Bekker, 1964)
Human resource theory
Humanistic theory (Carl Rogers 1859)
Implicit favorite model (Soelberg)
Implicit personality theory (Lord & Maher, 1990)
Impression Management Theory also known as Self Presentation Theory (1970's)
Individual differences - Ability, skills, & demographics (Blood & Hulin, Lawrence & Turner, White, Oldham & Hackman)
Individual psychological variables
Individualized consideration
Inductive theory
Inertia
Influencing members (Lewin, 1948; Lewin, Limpett & White, 1939)
Informal organization (Katz, French, Hawthorne Studies, )
Information processing theory
Information Processing Theory of communication
Information theory
Innovation and adaptation of change (Adams)
Innovation dilemma
Institutional racism and sexism (Joe Feagin)
Institutional theory
Intellectual capital
Intellectual inspiration
Intelligence: IQ, Emotional Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence.
Interaction and social learning theories
Interactionist theory
Intercultural communication
Intercultural elements of communication
Interdependence
Interdisciplinary studies
Inter-group behavior (Sherif, )
Intervention theory (Argyris)
Intra-group behavior (Sherif, )
Introduction of change agent: internal, external & internal-external
Involvement
Issues in job design
Janis’ theory of groupthink
Job analysis: Job description (content), requirement, context
Job design in practice - job specialization, job rotation, job enlargement and enrichment, scope, depth, relationship
Job Design Theory by Hackman
Job satisfaction and performance
Judgment processes
Kinesics
Knowledge Management
Kromemics – monochonic, polychronic,
Laing’s theory on relational perception (Laing)
Laissez-faire
Leader effectiveness
Leader equivalency – ‘interchangability’
Leader Motive Profile
Leader role theory
Leader substitutes (Kerr & Jermier, 1978)
Leader typologies
Leader-member exchange / LMX (Graen)
Leaderplex model of leadership
Leadership authority
Leadership behavior
Leadership culture
Leadership empowerment
Leadership evolution - Richard L. Daft and Pat Lane, The Leadership Experience, 2nd ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College, 2002)
Leadership influence
Leadership Information Processing
Leadership of groups (Davis)
Leadership sanctuary
Leadership style (Fiedler, 1964; Glanzer & Glaser, 1959, 1961)
Leadership substitutes
Leadership theories – micro, middle, macro
Leadership trait
Leadership versus leaders
Learning organizations
Life cycle leadership theory - see situtational leadership theory, Hersey & Blanchard
Lifecycle theory (adis)
Linguistic theories
Living systems theory (Wheatley)
LMX (see leader-member exchange)
Locus of Control
Logical positivism
Loop learning - zero- single- double- triple (Argyris, )
Love
Loyalty
Machiavelianism
Majority group influence (Moscovici, Mugny, & Van Avermaet, 1985; Nemeth, 1986)
Management by objectives
Managerial grid
Mao Zhe Dong – mass line
Markov process
Marwell & Smith’s exchange theory (Marwell & Smith)
Marxian Theory
Marxism Lenism, as applied to leadership
Meaning-making, sense-making
Mechanistic model
Mentoring
Message overload (Davis)
Metaphors
Metaphysics
Miles and Snow typology
Model of intellectual structure (Powers)
Modern semiotics (Pierce)
Moral character
Moral relativism
Morphogenosis (Starbuck 1971; Bucky 1968)
Motivation, regulation, and coordination of member activities
Multidimensional leadership (Habekker)
Multi-level
Multiple linkage model (Yukl)
Multiple screen model
Natural systems model
Naturalism
Need Hierarchy Theory (Maslow)
Neo-charismatic
Neo-classical (Human Relations) Management (Mayo, McGregor, Likert)
Non-verbal communication
Normative control (Kunda)
Normative decision-making model (Vroom & Yetton; Vroom & Jago)
Nurture
Ontology. as applied to leadership
Open systems analysis
Open Systems Theory
Openness
Operant conditioning (Skinner)
Organismic model
Organization design
Organization Theory (Max Weber 1864-1920)
Organizational climate
Organizational communication
Organizational culture (Schien)
Organizational diagnosis and assessment
Organizational ecology (Trist)
Organizational effectiveness
Organizational entropy
Organizational identification theory (Thompkins & Cheeney)
Organizational identity (wheaton & godfry)
Organizational intelligence
Organizational learning
Organizational mission
Organizational structure
Organizational underground
Organizational values
Organization-Task Fit Theory by John Morse and Jay Lorsch
Osgood’s theory of meaning
Overall concept of organization structure
Path Goal Theory (House)
Peacemaker model of conflict resolution (Sande)
Perception – Meaning
Performance orientation
Personal health
Personal situational theories
Personality and behavior; locus of control,
Personality: Meaning and characteristics
Perspectival observation
Politeness theory (Brown & Levison, 1987)
Political leadership
Political systems
Political theories of leadership
Political theory
Population ecology theory (Darwin)
Porter-Lawler Theory of Motivation by Lyman Porter & Edward Lawler
Positive reinforcement
Postmodern Organization Theory (Michel Foucault)
Postmodern theories
Post-structural theories
Power
Power and Politics
Power dependence theory (Emmerson)
Power distance
Power Elite Conflict Theory (C. Wright Mills 1916-1961)
Power reductionism
Power sources - actor (French & Raven , McClelland)
Power sources – situational - structure, upward, interdepartmental
Power sources - target - personality, gender, culture
Principle-Centered Leadership (Stephen R. Covey 1992)
Psychic prisons
Psychodynamic theory (Freud, Errikson, Jonge, Addler, Frome)
Psychological contracts
Psychological safety (Edmondson 1998);
Punctuated equilibrium
Radical Organization Theory (Harry Braverman)
Rational deductive approach
Rational model (assumptions, process)
Rational reflection model
Readiness for change
Reasoned Action Theory by Fishbein
Reciprocal determinism
Reciprocity (March & Simon, Barnard)
Redundancy
Reframing
Reification
Reinforced change
Reinforcement
Relationship between contextual variables and structural variables
Relationship theory of the Palo Alto Group
Relevance theory
Requisite variety
Resistance to change
Resource based theory (Winterfelt, 1984; Barney, 19866, 1981)
Resource dependence theory
Reward and avoid punishment
Rhetoric
Rhetorical sensitivity (Hart)
Rokeach’s theory of attitudes values and meaning
Role identity formation (Hogg)theory
Role models
Role theory
Romance of leadership theory (Meindl, 1985)
Romanticism
Satisfaction vs. efficiency
Scientific management (Taylor)
Second-order cybernetics
Self actualization
Self categorizing theory (Hogg)
Self disclosure theory
Self leadership (Manz & Sims)
Self presentation theory - see Impression management theory
Self-directed work teams
Self-efficacy
Self-fulfilling prophecy (Rosenthal)
Self-organizing systems
Self-other ratings
Self-referential absurdity
Self-regulating system
Semantics
Semiotics
Sensitivity training
Sensorics
Servant Leadership
Servant organizations (Laub, 1999)
Shared leadership
Significance – logical, moral, mathematical, statistical, historical,
Situational Leadership Model by Paul Hersey & Kenneth Blanchard
Situational theories
Small Group Leadership Theory (Triplett, 1898)
Social Adaptation Theory (Kahle, 1980, 1983, 1984)
Social anthropology
Social capital
Social categorization theory
Social class theory
Social coalition
Social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954, 1957)
Social construction of reality (Berger, Luckmann)
Social constructivism
Social Darwinism (Hebert Spencer 1820-1903)
Social dynamic theory (Lewin)
Social facilitation (Triplett, 1898; Allport, 1920)
Social impact theory
Social loafing
Social identity theory (Tajfel, 1974, 1978; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, &Wetherall, 1987)
Social intelligence / emotional intelligence ->charisma
Social judgment theory (shaerif)
Social learning theory by Albert Bandura
Social mutual exchange
Social networking theory
Social penetration theory
Social psychology
Social role theory
Social set theory [http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jbpl/vol2no1/Niewold_Jack_Final.pdf ]
Social systems theory
Sociological model to improve communication In organizations (Thompson, Tuden)
Sociotechnical systems theory
Sociotechnical systems theory (STS) (Tavistock Institute)
Solipsism
Specism
Speech accommodation theory
Speech act theory
Spiritual development
Spirituality in the workplace
Stage theories (Piaget, )
Stages of group development
Stakeholder theory
Stewardship
Strategic Planning
Strategy (Chandler; Porter)
Strong man
Structural functionalism (Talcott Parsons 1902-1979)
Structural hole theory (Burt)
Structural variables: Complexity - Horizontal differentiation, Vertical differentiation
Structuralism
Structuration
Structuration theory of group decision making (Poole)
Structure
Super leader
SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats
Symbol
Symbolic Interactionism (George Herbert Mead 1863-1931)
Symbolic interpretivitism (Weick)
Syntactics
System 4 - organization wide
System 5 (Likert)
Systems - open versus closed
Systems Theory
Systems Thinking
Task accomplishment
Task relation situation
Team building
Teams - nature, types, and effectiveness
Technology (Woodward; Pugh & Hickson)
Teleleadership
Theories of discourse
Theories of message reception
Theories of personality
Theory construction movement (Arthur Stinchcombe)
Theory of cognitive dissonance
Theory of communication acts and work on the acquaintance process (Newcomb, 1953, 1961)
Theory of Organization Structure, as deductive approach (Blau)
Theory of social impact (Latané, 1981)
Theory Of Task-behavior (E.A. Locke)
Theory X Theory Y Laissez-faire (MacGregor)
Theory Z (Ouchi)
Theraputic groups
Thread theory
Time theories and their impacts on organizations and leadership
Top management team
Total quality management
Trait leadership
Trait theories
Trait-situational theories
Transaction Cost Theory by Williamson
Transactional Leadership
Transformational Leader (Bass, 1981; Bass)
Trust
Truth
Two-Factor Theory by Frederick Herzberg (1959)
Tyranny (Bies & Tripp)
Uncertainty avoidance
Uncertainty reduction theory (Burger, 1982)
Universal skepticism
Upper Echelon Theory (Hambrick and mason) ARTICLE USING UPPER ECHELONS THEORY
Upward communication (Davis, Krivonos)
Utility theory
Values – human, organization, society (Hofsteade, )
Vertical Dyad Linkage Theory (Green)
Virtual leadership
Virtual learning
Virtual organizations
Virtue
Vision
Visionary leader
Voice
Vygotsky’s theory of contextualizism (Vygotsky, 1962, 1978)
Weick’s theory of organization (Weick)
Work and emotionality in groups (Bion, 1961; Stock & Thelen, 1958; Thelen, Stock, & Associates, 1954)
Work family conflict values
Worldview
Acognitive approach
Acquired Need Theory (McClelland)
Action learning
Activation Theory (Malmo, 1959; Scott, 1966) Suggests that stimulation can serve as a powerful motivator only until an optimal level is achieved.
Adaptability
Adaption-Innovation Theory by Kiton (1976)
Adaptive Structuration Theory
Administrative Theory (Fayol)
Aesthetics
Agency Theory
Allportian Event-Structure Theory by F.H. Allportian (1954)
Analysis of power (French, 1956; French & Raven, 1959)
Aspiration Level Theory
Attainment of role theory
Attraction selection attrition framework (Snyder)
Attribution theory of conflict
Attribution Theory
Autopoeisis
Axiology
Bale’s interaction process analysis (Bale)
Boulding’s hierarchy of systems (Boulding, 1956)
Boundary spanning
Bounded rationality (March & Simon)
Bureaucratic collectivism
Bureaucratic conflict theories
Bureaucratic oligarchic theories
Calling
Chaos theory
Chaotic attractors
Charismatic Leadership Theory by Max Weber, 1947
Clans (Ouchi)
Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
Cognitive approach
Cognitive complexity
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive organization
Cognitive stage theory (Piaget)
Cognitive theory
Coherence
Cohesiveness including groupthink
Collective bargaining – unions, guilds,
Collectivism
Communication appreciation (McCrosky)
Communication patterns for task performance (Guetzkow & Simon, 1955; Shaw, 1954, 1958)
Communicator style (Norton)
Complex adaptive systems
Complexity theory
Conditional trust (Jones & George 1998);
Configuration
Conflict resolution (Thomas & Ruble)
Constructivism (Delia)
Consummation
Contemporary Conflict Theory (William Julius Wilson 1940- )
Contemporary relativism
Contingency Theory by Frederick Fiedler (1951)
Contingency theory of organizational types (Burns & Stalker)
Creative Tensions Theory by T.S. Kuhn (1963)
Credibility
Cultural determinism
Cultural Dimensions --Hofstede
Power Distance
Cybernetics – steady state, stable state, change state
Decision emergence theory (Fisher)
Decision processing model (March & Simon, Lewin, Vroom, Yetton; Jago)
Definition of influence, power and authority
Determinism
Developmental theories (Piaget, )
Diagnostic job redesign (Oldham & Hackman)
Dialectical theory of friendships
Dialogue (Bohm, 1996; Buber, 1970; )
Didacticism
Discourse (Michael Foucault, 1972)
Disposable leadership
Dissonance theory (Festinger, 1954, 1957)
Double loop learning (Argyris)
Dynamic social impact theory
Dynamic social impact theory (Latané & Herrou, 1996; Nowak, Szamrej, & Latané, 1990)
Dynamical systems theory
Early Trait Approach
Eclecticism
Economic theory
Ecosystems
E-leadership
Emergence
Enactment theory (Weick)
Enlightened Leadership
Environment- Meaning (Burns & Stalker; Lawrence & Lorsch)
Environmental determinism
Environmental uncertainty and Organizational Design in the service sector
Environmental uncertainty information processing and adaptive design strategies (Joyce)
Equity Theory by Adams
Equivocation theory
ERG Theory (Alderfer)
Ethnography
Ethological theory
Exchange theory (Thibaut & Kelly)
Executive tenure
Exemplary followers
Expectancy Theory by Victor Vroom
Expectancy violations theory (Burgoon)
Experience
External environment
Fear
Feedback - The return of information about the results or status of a process within the organization.
Feedback loops
Feedback systems – negative, positive
Feminist Organization Theory
Fisher’s theory of narrative (Fisher)
Flux and transformation
Follower leader relations model
Formalization - Meaning
Four-factor theory of leadership (Parker, 1989)
Functional theory
Future perfect thinking (Week)
Garbage Can Theory of Decision Making by James March, Cohen & Olsen
General systems theory (vonBernallaffy)
Gestalt approac to organizational consulting
Gibson’s perceptual development theory (Gibson, 1969, 1992)
G.L.O.B.E.
Goal attainment model
Goal efficacy, goal integrity (McGregor & Little 1998)
Goal Setting Theory by E.A. Locke (1960's)
Grapevine (Davis, 1953)
Great man theory
Group decision making
Group dynamics - Status, Role, Norm
Group field dynamics (Polley, 1988, 1989)
Group Performance
Group psychotherapy (Ettin, Fidler, & Cohen, 1995; Verdi & Wheelan, 1992; Wheelan & McKeage, 1993)
Group roles (McCann & Margerison)
Groups and identity
Groups as complex adaptive dynamic systems
Groups as systems for improving learning and member adjustment
Groups as systems for individuals to grow in self-understanding (National Training Laboratory)
Groups as systems for influencing members
Groups as systems for patterning interaction
Groups as systems for performing tasks
Groupthink
Hall’s theory on proxemics
Hierarchy theory (Simon)
High performance teams
Hirokawa’s model of the group decision making process (Hirokawa)
Holographic design
Homeostasis
Human capital theory (Bekker, 1964)
Human resource theory
Humanistic theory (Carl Rogers 1859)
Implicit favorite model (Soelberg)
Implicit personality theory (Lord & Maher, 1990)
Impression Management Theory also known as Self Presentation Theory (1970's)
Individual differences - Ability, skills, & demographics (Blood & Hulin, Lawrence & Turner, White, Oldham & Hackman)
Individual psychological variables
Individualized consideration
Inductive theory
Inertia
Influencing members (Lewin, 1948; Lewin, Limpett & White, 1939)
Informal organization (Katz, French, Hawthorne Studies, )
Information processing theory
Information Processing Theory of communication
Information theory
Innovation and adaptation of change (Adams)
Innovation dilemma
Institutional racism and sexism (Joe Feagin)
Institutional theory
Intellectual capital
Intellectual inspiration
Intelligence: IQ, Emotional Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence.
Interaction and social learning theories
Interactionist theory
Intercultural communication
Intercultural elements of communication
Interdependence
Interdisciplinary studies
Inter-group behavior (Sherif, )
Intervention theory (Argyris)
Intra-group behavior (Sherif, )
Introduction of change agent: internal, external & internal-external
Involvement
Issues in job design
Janis’ theory of groupthink
Job analysis: Job description (content), requirement, context
Job design in practice - job specialization, job rotation, job enlargement and enrichment, scope, depth, relationship
Job Design Theory by Hackman
Job satisfaction and performance
Judgment processes
Kinesics
Knowledge Management
Kromemics – monochonic, polychronic,
Laing’s theory on relational perception (Laing)
Laissez-faire
Leader effectiveness
Leader equivalency – ‘interchangability’
Leader Motive Profile
Leader role theory
Leader substitutes (Kerr & Jermier, 1978)
Leader typologies
Leader-member exchange / LMX (Graen)
Leaderplex model of leadership
Leadership authority
Leadership behavior
Leadership culture
Leadership empowerment
Leadership evolution - Richard L. Daft and Pat Lane, The Leadership Experience, 2nd ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College, 2002)
Leadership influence
Leadership Information Processing
Leadership of groups (Davis)
Leadership sanctuary
Leadership style (Fiedler, 1964; Glanzer & Glaser, 1959, 1961)
Leadership substitutes
Leadership theories – micro, middle, macro
Leadership trait
Leadership versus leaders
Learning organizations
Life cycle leadership theory - see situtational leadership theory, Hersey & Blanchard
Lifecycle theory (adis)
Linguistic theories
Living systems theory (Wheatley)
LMX (see leader-member exchange)
Locus of Control
Logical positivism
Loop learning - zero- single- double- triple (Argyris, )
Love
Loyalty
Machiavelianism
Majority group influence (Moscovici, Mugny, & Van Avermaet, 1985; Nemeth, 1986)
Management by objectives
Managerial grid
Mao Zhe Dong – mass line
Markov process
Marwell & Smith’s exchange theory (Marwell & Smith)
Marxian Theory
Marxism Lenism, as applied to leadership
Meaning-making, sense-making
Mechanistic model
Mentoring
Message overload (Davis)
Metaphors
Metaphysics
Miles and Snow typology
Model of intellectual structure (Powers)
Modern semiotics (Pierce)
Moral character
Moral relativism
Morphogenosis (Starbuck 1971; Bucky 1968)
Motivation, regulation, and coordination of member activities
Multidimensional leadership (Habekker)
Multi-level
Multiple linkage model (Yukl)
Multiple screen model
Natural systems model
Naturalism
Need Hierarchy Theory (Maslow)
Neo-charismatic
Neo-classical (Human Relations) Management (Mayo, McGregor, Likert)
Non-verbal communication
Normative control (Kunda)
Normative decision-making model (Vroom & Yetton; Vroom & Jago)
Nurture
Ontology. as applied to leadership
Open systems analysis
Open Systems Theory
Openness
Operant conditioning (Skinner)
Organismic model
Organization design
Organization Theory (Max Weber 1864-1920)
Organizational climate
Organizational communication
Organizational culture (Schien)
Organizational diagnosis and assessment
Organizational ecology (Trist)
Organizational effectiveness
Organizational entropy
Organizational identification theory (Thompkins & Cheeney)
Organizational identity (wheaton & godfry)
Organizational intelligence
Organizational learning
Organizational mission
Organizational structure
Organizational underground
Organizational values
Organization-Task Fit Theory by John Morse and Jay Lorsch
Osgood’s theory of meaning
Overall concept of organization structure
Path Goal Theory (House)
Peacemaker model of conflict resolution (Sande)
Perception – Meaning
Performance orientation
Personal health
Personal situational theories
Personality and behavior; locus of control,
Personality: Meaning and characteristics
Perspectival observation
Politeness theory (Brown & Levison, 1987)
Political leadership
Political systems
Political theories of leadership
Political theory
Population ecology theory (Darwin)
Porter-Lawler Theory of Motivation by Lyman Porter & Edward Lawler
Positive reinforcement
Postmodern Organization Theory (Michel Foucault)
Postmodern theories
Post-structural theories
Power
Power and Politics
Power dependence theory (Emmerson)
Power distance
Power Elite Conflict Theory (C. Wright Mills 1916-1961)
Power reductionism
Power sources - actor (French & Raven , McClelland)
Power sources – situational - structure, upward, interdepartmental
Power sources - target - personality, gender, culture
Principle-Centered Leadership (Stephen R. Covey 1992)
Psychic prisons
Psychodynamic theory (Freud, Errikson, Jonge, Addler, Frome)
Psychological contracts
Psychological safety (Edmondson 1998);
Punctuated equilibrium
Radical Organization Theory (Harry Braverman)
Rational deductive approach
Rational model (assumptions, process)
Rational reflection model
Readiness for change
Reasoned Action Theory by Fishbein
Reciprocal determinism
Reciprocity (March & Simon, Barnard)
Redundancy
Reframing
Reification
Reinforced change
Reinforcement
Relationship between contextual variables and structural variables
Relationship theory of the Palo Alto Group
Relevance theory
Requisite variety
Resistance to change
Resource based theory (Winterfelt, 1984; Barney, 19866, 1981)
Resource dependence theory
Reward and avoid punishment
Rhetoric
Rhetorical sensitivity (Hart)
Rokeach’s theory of attitudes values and meaning
Role identity formation (Hogg)theory
Role models
Role theory
Romance of leadership theory (Meindl, 1985)
Romanticism
Satisfaction vs. efficiency
Scientific management (Taylor)
Second-order cybernetics
Self actualization
Self categorizing theory (Hogg)
Self disclosure theory
Self leadership (Manz & Sims)
Self presentation theory - see Impression management theory
Self-directed work teams
Self-efficacy
Self-fulfilling prophecy (Rosenthal)
Self-organizing systems
Self-other ratings
Self-referential absurdity
Self-regulating system
Semantics
Semiotics
Sensitivity training
Sensorics
Servant Leadership
Servant organizations (Laub, 1999)
Shared leadership
Significance – logical, moral, mathematical, statistical, historical,
Situational Leadership Model by Paul Hersey & Kenneth Blanchard
Situational theories
Small Group Leadership Theory (Triplett, 1898)
Social Adaptation Theory (Kahle, 1980, 1983, 1984)
Social anthropology
Social capital
Social categorization theory
Social class theory
Social coalition
Social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954, 1957)
Social construction of reality (Berger, Luckmann)
Social constructivism
Social Darwinism (Hebert Spencer 1820-1903)
Social dynamic theory (Lewin)
Social facilitation (Triplett, 1898; Allport, 1920)
Social impact theory
Social loafing
Social identity theory (Tajfel, 1974, 1978; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, &Wetherall, 1987)
Social intelligence / emotional intelligence ->charisma
Social judgment theory (shaerif)
Social learning theory by Albert Bandura
Social mutual exchange
Social networking theory
Social penetration theory
Social psychology
Social role theory
Social set theory [http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jbpl/vol2no1/Niewold_Jack_Final.pdf ]
Social systems theory
Sociological model to improve communication In organizations (Thompson, Tuden)
Sociotechnical systems theory
Sociotechnical systems theory (STS) (Tavistock Institute)
Solipsism
Specism
Speech accommodation theory
Speech act theory
Spiritual development
Spirituality in the workplace
Stage theories (Piaget, )
Stages of group development
Stakeholder theory
Stewardship
Strategic Planning
Strategy (Chandler; Porter)
Strong man
Structural functionalism (Talcott Parsons 1902-1979)
Structural hole theory (Burt)
Structural variables: Complexity - Horizontal differentiation, Vertical differentiation
Structuralism
Structuration
Structuration theory of group decision making (Poole)
Structure
Super leader
SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats
Symbol
Symbolic Interactionism (George Herbert Mead 1863-1931)
Symbolic interpretivitism (Weick)
Syntactics
System 4 - organization wide
System 5 (Likert)
Systems - open versus closed
Systems Theory
Systems Thinking
Task accomplishment
Task relation situation
Team building
Teams - nature, types, and effectiveness
Technology (Woodward; Pugh & Hickson)
Teleleadership
Theories of discourse
Theories of message reception
Theories of personality
Theory construction movement (Arthur Stinchcombe)
Theory of cognitive dissonance
Theory of communication acts and work on the acquaintance process (Newcomb, 1953, 1961)
Theory of Organization Structure, as deductive approach (Blau)
Theory of social impact (Latané, 1981)
Theory Of Task-behavior (E.A. Locke)
Theory X Theory Y Laissez-faire (MacGregor)
Theory Z (Ouchi)
Theraputic groups
Thread theory
Time theories and their impacts on organizations and leadership
Top management team
Total quality management
Trait leadership
Trait theories
Trait-situational theories
Transaction Cost Theory by Williamson
Transactional Leadership
Transformational Leader (Bass, 1981; Bass)
Trust
Truth
Two-Factor Theory by Frederick Herzberg (1959)
Tyranny (Bies & Tripp)
Uncertainty avoidance
Uncertainty reduction theory (Burger, 1982)
Universal skepticism
Upper Echelon Theory (Hambrick and mason) ARTICLE USING UPPER ECHELONS THEORY
Upward communication (Davis, Krivonos)
Utility theory
Values – human, organization, society (Hofsteade, )
Vertical Dyad Linkage Theory (Green)
Virtual leadership
Virtual learning
Virtual organizations
Virtue
Vision
Visionary leader
Voice
Vygotsky’s theory of contextualizism (Vygotsky, 1962, 1978)
Weick’s theory of organization (Weick)
Work and emotionality in groups (Bion, 1961; Stock & Thelen, 1958; Thelen, Stock, & Associates, 1954)
Work family conflict values
Worldview